Janney managed to convince Minister of Militia and Defence, Sir Sam Hughes, to commission him as captain and to grant him $5,000 for a flying corps.

It was reported "Bay City, Detroit and Toronto capital is interested in the new factory, which it is understood, already has large orders from the United States government.

Janney started a hunger strike in protest against his arrest on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses in connection with the public float of an aircraft company.

[7] In 1921, a news bulletin from Edmonton reported that Captain Janney was organizing a dirigible air service from Peace River, Alberta to Fort Norman, Northwest Territories.

[8] In January 1932, he was reported to be working as a businessman and aviation pioneer, a Montreal newspaper described him as the "first Canadian to volunteer his services and be accepted as a war flier".